Clipping of news on Brazilian Culture, Law and Citizenship
by Danilo Santana - Brazilian Writer
This article was translated by an automatic translation system, and was therefore not reviewed by people.
Public service is one that is established, maintained and run by the state, aiming to meet their own interests and to meet the collective needs. Eventually may be provided by third parties, mainly through public concession.
The Public Lending is the bilateral contract where contractors assume reciprocal obligations and that the parties can not, impunity, no longer meet. The Grant is almost always granted with privilege of holding a monopoly or oligopoly, and in this case, especially, should be examined carefully and that the obligations regarding the fees.
Water Supply
There are many municipalities that capture, treat and supply water directly to the consumer, but the utilities are gaining space. And that is not necessarily disastrous, however, could be the way to the rates were lower, the better service and business fluísse with more dynamism and efficiency.
In the case of water, power Grantor is the municipality, but the rates are set by the dealer who, after preparing a spreadsheet of costs, add a margin for investment and research, apply the percentage of profit you want, set the value of rate. It is logical that it is the government to authorize, but the complexity of data and projections in an area that involves hundreds of variables, prevents the organs of control and supervision can do something to curb the excesses.
Sometimes the public administrator interested shut our eyes to the unfair tariffs of the concessionaires, especially when political manipulation can occur, for example the area and focus on genuine negotiation of favors, operate as the industry votes.
Finally, given the political power of the municipality, to Grantor, and the other powers at the state and federal, that the rate of water is not fixed because of their cost in each of the municipalities, but otherwise, shall be grounds of regional political interests or simply based on economic financial capacity of certain regions.
It is apparent that in some communities do not pay the rates the true cost of water, but it is also clear that in some communities the rate is extremely high to offset the deficit in some regions.
We could even imagine that it would be fair that some consumers pay more for richer than other, poorer, pay less. But this is not the correct distribution of income, since the leveling is not for consumers, poor or rich, but because of regional income, which does not exclude the existence of very poor consumers in rich communities and consumers in rich poor communities.
Moreover, the relations of consumption that is the correct pay the fair value for the product and not consuming the ideal value measured by political interests, or by the statistical figures of the economy.
Investment and regional coverage of the deficit are not obligations of consumers of essential public services, but of responsibility supported by government budget allocations.
The sewer rates have been collected without the consumer actually the corresponding service has been provided. Because the utilities in many states and municipalities, only collect the sewage, without effectively treat it to maintain the balance of the environment. However, the rate reaches the sewer cost the consumer an amount equal to 100% of water consumed.
Still, in many cases, the sewage collected in one spot goes to the rivers, already dead, polluting and diseases leading to thousands of people forgotten that paid dearly for the treatment of sewage, but have to pay as punishment for their ignorance of citizenship.
But the truth is that consumers of public services in Brazil still has much to learn and demand, only after this step and the citizen is aware that we can assess the completeness and efficiency of the dealers and the responsibility and capability of leaders of the grantor.
Supply of Electricity
The supply of electricity in Brazil is not different from the sector of water and sewerage or telephony. Although the privilege of having large electricity companies in Brazil, we can not ignore that their vices are many, and the biggest sin is the absence of bodies which monitor and supervise the quality and regularity of energy and a fair rate.
Voltage fluctuations are determining factors in the duration and preservation of our equipment and electrical installations and appliances.
We can not accept even the silence of the concessionaires of electric energy when it is known that importers to the detriment of domestic industry and consumers, until recently, stifling the market with incandescent unfit to voltage distributed energy when it is logical, in this case had cost to the consumer because of the durability of the lamps and with respect to energy consumption.
Indeed, the utilities require reduction in energy consumption at certain times of high demand, but is silent when the increase in consumption is projected for most of the time when there is abundance of energy.
Privatization of Telecommunications
It would be great for the consumer know that the telecommunications system grew more than any other business segment in Brazil, which is one of the most profitable activities in the world and that Brazil made a case that privatization was the largest on all angles, and more disputed in the earth.
But the desire to grow this segment of unbridled manner, without respect to the subscriber, and in absolute alienation of the citizen, created a pricing freedom that represented the largest increase in cost to the consumer side of signature and services as before the and after privatization.
All this in the absence of law and subscribers, as a justification only by ambition and greed for political profit financial gain.
Finally, the subscriber knows that nothing, discovers that the concessionaire of the telecommunications services signed a contract with third parties, undertook to blackmail the subscriber with the recovery of debts to third parties such as the cable television and dozens of other services, the accounts of telephony services. Only the lawsuits successfully stop this abuse by requiring that the subscriber previously authorized the charges, but that, after long years of legal dispute.
Meanwhile the television and other means of communication dump including an advertising campaign targeted to non-subscribers to telephone lines, as children and the subscriber's employees, encouraging them to issue debt, including making donations on behalf of the holder.
Even if justice is discussed in the telephone service concessionaires may charge fees for subscriptions, because they also charge for services rendered, or may charge for any services that fail to show that they were actually provided.
Mismatch is that they have no precedent in history and that it is expected, justice will correct copy in the avalanche of abuse against consumers, even as a way to discourage the rampant exploitation of public services, because until now, seriously, the concessionaires not have been concerned with cost contain or use technology to reduce the amount of tariffs, but engaged, greedily, to exhaust the consumer without any concern or commitment to social responsibility.
Ultimately, what society expects of public services, the dealers and politicians, is that it finally discover that public services should be used for recovery of the citizen and citizenship, and never act as an instrument of their economic and moral impoverishment.
This article was translated by an automatic translation system, and was therefore not reviewed by people.